Popular Netflix series brainwashes viewers into believing college is useless and expensive

By Joshua Taylor | Published 1 hour ago

The American university system is in crisis. Going to college no longer gives graduates an advantage in finding a job, according to recently released research from the Federal Reserve Bank. College is no longer useful and people are starting to figure it out.

It’s in this environment that the second season of Netflix’s hit series is released a man deep inside. What started out as a show about nursing home residents has become a brainwashing tool designed to trick young people into giving money to college, regardless of whether going there will help them.

If you have watched season 2 a man deep insidewhether you realize it or not, you have been screenwashed. This is what they do.

Screen washed (adjective) — When something seen on the screen completely changes how someone thinks or feels, as if their old beliefs were erased and replaced by what they just saw.

A madman tells the truth

Promotional tools used a man deep inside The method of programming your brain is called “pathologizing,” and it works like this: When a character expresses truthful or rational statements in a deranged tone, manic pace, wild gestures, or paranoid emotions, the audience will subconsciously label the content as mentally ill, even if the words are actually correct.

Entertainment journalists sometimes describe it as “crazy people telling the truth.” It is deliberately used to make the audience reject valid ideas by making the way those ideas are expressed sound crazy, or by making the person saying the ideas look crazy, or by making the person who opposes the logical ideas sound like a hero.

So what does it matter? a man deep inside? everything.

How one’s heart pathologizes usefulness

The second season of the show revolves around a place called Wheeler Academy. Like all modern university campuses, it is a gorgeous palace of learning. The staff there don’t really do anything or teach anything of value. They often get drunk, laugh at those who build bridges (really, it happens), and often brag that everything they teach has absolutely no use in the outside world.

You might think these college professors would be the villains of the show, but in fact they’re cast as a man deep inside A compassionate hero.

Played by Ted Danson a man deep inside The show centers on an older detective named Charles Nieuwendyk. He is hired to infiltrate the university and pretend to be a professor to find out who stole a laptop containing sensitive information. If that laptop falls into the wrong hands, Wheeler College will lose the free money it got from an asshole billionaire named Vinik (Gary Cole).

We learn that Vinik plans to turn the academy into a temple of learning. He wants Wheeler to become a true leader in education, helping to educate future innovators and sending students around the world to become future millionaires and billionaires. This plan makes him the main villain of the season, and the heroic staff of Wheeler Academy, with the help of Neuwendyck, set out to stop him from turning their campus into something useful for the students.

Thinking Beyond Selling College Paradise

Another screenwashing technique used simultaneously by the show is a sales and hypnosis method called “Beyond Sales Thinking.” When thinking about a sales problem, instead of arguing to get someone to accept your point of view, you get them thinking about your desired outcome and skipping the decision point.

exist a man deep insidewe show us how idyllic and perfect life can be when college is useless and worthless, rather than thinking about whether it’s a good idea. So we see beautiful scenes of campus life, endless speeches about how college is a family, and we see college professors getting drunk, partying, and basically not doing any work, even though they’re in fancy offices. College is portrayed as a paradise, a paradise that only works if it is completely useless and no one does anything or learns anything of value.

When tuition at Wheeler College goes up, students are pictured working dozens of jobs at once to pay for the tuition they need to complete a social work degree, and even though they work themselves to death and have no sleep and no way to pay off their debt, they remain in debt their entire lives but are grateful to suffer as long as it allows them to live in this place of love, light, and family.

If viewers started to stray from their show, Vinik would always appear and wonder why no one learned anything. He does this while being a giant, cartoonish asshole just to make sure you connect his point about education needing to be useful with a completely evil one.

When the season ends, Nivendyk’s own daughter gives up the successful career she used to support her grandchildren so she can join the wonderful world of taxpayer-funded lifelong students and lazy college professors. I guess her husband had to work overtime so she could drink coffee by the fountain in the yard. Meanwhile, Vinik is banished back to the evil lair of a hard-working billionaire.

A history of successful publicity

Although a man deep inside execution pathologize and Think beyond sales These techniques may seem clunky and unlikely to work, but they have often been used as propaganda tools in the past. Ever heard of someone being called a “Stepford Wife”? You know this term because in the 1970s, there was a movie called mrs stepford By using the same propaganda techniques, it is pervasive that keeping a house clean and children fed is a bad thing.

a man deep inside The screenwash operation successfully flips the script to reality. In the real America of 2025, where parents are taking out second mortgages and teenagers are drowning in debt to earn degrees, they have the right to ask, “Would you like fries with that?”

Meanwhile, Netflix offers eight hours of a well-crafted fantasy in which the only sin worse than uselessness is usefulness itself. The message throughout the season has been: If you question the value of college, you’re not just wrong, you’re wrong. You are a heartless, money-grubbing monster who hates family, community, and fountain-side coffee chats.

So the next time someone tells you that “it’s still worth going to college to gain experience,” listen to his tone. Do they sound calm and sensible, or do they open their eyes and gesticulate wildly, talking about “finding yourself” and “the family of your choice”? Because if they sound a little unhinged, congratulations: Pathologizing succeeded. Netflix got into their heads and now they volunteer as unpaid recruiters for an industry that takes everything and gets nothing.

Congratulations, future college students, you have been screen-washed.